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The insecure American [[electronic resource] ] : how we got here and what we should do about it / / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich
| The insecure American [[electronic resource] ] : how we got here and what we should do about it / / edited by Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman ; foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (387 p.) |
| Disciplina | 973.93 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
GustersonHugh
BestemanCatherine Lowe |
| Soggetto topico |
Security (Psychology) - United States
Nationalism - United States |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american culture
american life american society americans anthropology anxious debt levels drug addiction ethnography gated communities health care system health insurance immigration insecure america insecurity job uncertainty money neoliberalism new economy policy politics poverty punitive governance race in america racial resentments racism safety net terrorism terrorist attacks undocumented immigration united states of america vulnerability wal mart war on drugs war on terror warmaking |
| ISBN | 0-520-94508-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A Nation of Gated Communities -- 2. Warmaking as the American Way of Life -- 3. Republic of Fear The Rise of Punitive Governance in America -- 4. Neoliberalism, or The Bureaucratization of the World -- 5. The Age of Wal-Mart -- 6. Deindustrializing Chicago: A Daughter's Story -- 7. Racism, Risk, and the New Color of Dirty Jobs -- 8. Normal Insecurities, Healthy Insecurities -- 9. Cultivating Insecurity: How Marketers Are Commercializing Childhood -- 10. Uneasy Street -- 11. Body and Soul Profits from Poverty -- 12. Useless Suffering The War on Homeless Drug Addicts -- 13. Walling Out Immigrants -- 14. Compounding Insecurity: What the Neocon Core Reveals about America Today -- 15. Deploying Law as a Weapon in America's War on Terror -- 16. Death and Dying in Anxious America -- 17. Get Religion -- contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789999503321 |
| Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2010 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja
| My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja |
| Autore | Soja Edward W |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.1/2160979494 |
| Soggetto topico |
City planning - California - Los Angeles
Sociology, Urban - California - Los Angeles Regional planning - California - Los Angeles |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american history
american metropolis california californian history capital and labor city life city regions crowded cities deindustrialization globalization heterogeneous history of los angeles history los angeles school of urban studies los angeles metropolis era new economy new regionalism politics regional studies regional urbanization reindustrialization spatial turn united states of america urban development urban restructuring urban studies urban urbanization of suburbia urbanization |
| ISBN | 0-520-95763-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When It First Came Together in Los Angeles -- 2. Taking Los Angeles Apart -- 3. Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County -- 4. Comparing Los Angeles -- 5. On the Postmetropolitan Transition -- 6. A Look Beyond Los Angeles -- 7. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 8. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles -- 9. Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author -- Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787604003321 |
Soja Edward W
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja
| My Los Angeles : from urban restructuring to regional urbanization / / Edward W. Soja |
| Autore | Soja Edward W |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (295 p.) |
| Disciplina | 307.1/2160979494 |
| Soggetto topico |
City planning - California - Los Angeles
Sociology, Urban - California - Los Angeles Regional planning - California - Los Angeles |
| Soggetto non controllato |
american history
american metropolis california californian history capital and labor city life city regions crowded cities deindustrialization globalization heterogeneous history of los angeles history los angeles school of urban studies los angeles metropolis era new economy new regionalism politics regional studies regional urbanization reindustrialization spatial turn united states of america urban development urban restructuring urban studies urban urbanization of suburbia urbanization |
| ISBN | 0-520-95763-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. When It First Came Together in Los Angeles -- 2. Taking Los Angeles Apart -- 3. Inside Exopolis: Views of Orange County -- 4. Comparing Los Angeles -- 5. On the Postmetropolitan Transition -- 6. A Look Beyond Los Angeles -- 7. Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era -- 8. Seeking Spatial Justice in Los Angeles -- 9. Occupy Los Angeles: A Very Contemporary Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Source Texts by the Author -- Appendix 2: Complementary Video Sources -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910821963103321 |
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Soja Edward W
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| Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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